Anurag Kumar
Friday, a special CBI court found a Chandigarh Police sub-inspector guilty of soliciting 10,000 to assist a student leader in obtaining bail, more than eight years after he was detained for asking for the money.
On June 3, 2015, sub-inspector (SI) Sushil Kumar, who was then assigned to the UT police’s crime division, was arrested from the District Court Complex in Sector 43.
On September 4, the court will announce the severity of the sentence.
In response to a complaint from Gursewak of Shampura village, Rupnagar, the CBI had set a trap outside a courthouse restroom.
Gursewak claimed that the SI solicited a bribe from him in exchange for assisting his brother Baljit Chaudhary obtain bail in an Arms Act case filed at the Sector 36 police station.
In April 2014, Chaudhary, the chairman of PUSU, an indigenous student party at Panjab University, was detained with an unlicensed.32-caliber US-made firearm.
After a few weeks, he was initially released on bail, but he failed to appear at subsequent court proceedings, so his bail was revoked. On February 15, 2015, he was re-arrested by Mohali police and confined in the Rupnagar jail.
Gursewak alleged that the SI sought money to assist Chaudhary in obtaining parole and to refrain from filing new charges against him.
As the SI was required to appear in court for a hearing, he requested that Gursewak meet him at the District Court Complex.
But on June 2, 2015, Gursewak and his cousin Lavkesh Singh of Mohali approached the CBI office in Chandigarh.
On June 3, the accused was charged under Section 7 of the Prevention of Corruption Act at the CBI, ACB, Chandigarh branch, based on a report from CBI inspector Subhash Chander.
The CBI immediately devised a trap after filing the FIR and caught the SI red-handed.
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This is the second conviction of this nature in less than a month. A special CBI court sentenced an additional Chandigarh Police SI to four years in prison on August 28 for accepting 15,000 in bribes in 2015.
The CBI had apprehended the accused, Sewak Singh, near a hotel in Sector 17 while he was accepting a bribe from a Kaimbwala resident. The complainant claimed that the SI at the Sector 3 police station demanded 20,000 from him for not filing a case against him.
